(a.) Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.
(a.) Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.
(n.) One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under the dose-equivalent-limitation system, annual ingestion decreases from 451 kBq during the first year to 36 kBq during the fiftieth year.
(2) The Washington School of Psychiatry, the distinguished institution that publishes Psychiatry, is in 1986 celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its founding by Harry Stack Sullivan and his colleagues.
(3) In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the journal, this paper reviews the development of these models.
(4) CSA also stimulated the clonal growth of AML cells, and the minimum requirement for CSA was one-tenth to one-fiftieth that required to stimulate the growth of normal marrow CFU-C. CSA for AML cells was eluted from Sephacryl S-200 columns in fractions that represented an apparent molecular weight of 45,000 daltons.
(5) The intrasession variation, the left-right variation, and the fifth and fiftieth centile values were calculated.
(6) More direct proof was obtained by purifying the deaminase 185-fold and finding that it released hydroxylamine from 4-N-hydroxy-cytidine at one-fiftieth the rate at which ammonia was removed from cytidine.
(7) Anti-Pseudomonas resistance of the control BMT mice examined on days 7, 9, and 11 following BMT was one fifteenth to one fiftieth of normal mice, as indicated by the LD50 value.
(8) The specificity of the antigen-antibody interaction was high: glycosides in which the tyvelose (3,6-dideoxy-D-arabino-hexose) residue had been replaced by abequose (3,6-dideoxy-D-xylo-hexose) or paratose (3,6-dideoxy-K-ribo-hexose), had less than one fiftieth of the activity of the most active inhibitor in either of the two precipitation systems used.
(9) Permeability of the interstitial space for extracellular solutes is one-thirtieth to one-fiftieth that of an equivalent thickness of water.
(10) Furthermore, we showed that bovine brain capillary endothelial cells retain, up to the fiftieth generation, some of the characteristics of the blood-brain barrier: occurrence of tight junctions, paucity of pinocytotic vesicles, and monoamine oxidase activity.
(11) On the average, over the total age range, the differences between the age equivalents (bone ages) for the fiftieth percentile and chronological age were close to zero in both sexes, indicating good agreement with the British standards.
(12) This together with new technology reduced the legal abortions mortality rate to one-fiftieth over the last 30 years even though the number of legal abortions increased 7-fold.
(13) These cells, absolutely free of pericyte contamination, are subcultured, at the split ratio of 1:20 (20-fold increase of the cultured surface), with no apparent changes in cell morphology up to the fiftieth generation (10 passages).
(14) Annual committed dose equivalent decreases from 3.6 Sv during the first year to 0.3 Sv during the fiftieth year.
(15) Those scoring "low" (less than fiftieth percentile) on the Council on Resident Education test all had scores less than 500 on part 2 of the national board, whereas those scoring "high" on the Council on Resident Education test (greater than ninetieth percentile) scored about 600 or higher on part 2 of the national board.
(16) The specific activity of tritium in pine needles was almost the same as that in the branches and about one fiftieth that in the small roots or soil.
(17) In one, fixed ratio 25, the reinforcer was delivered on the twenty-fifth response; on the other, fixed ratio 50, the fiftieth response was reinforced.
(18) However, in low ionic strength media, physalaemin has about one-fiftieth the potency of SP in competing with [3H]SP.
(19) The second phase begins at the end of the first phase and finishes toward the fortieth or fiftieth day of the mission.
(20) The Hellenic National Graduate Nurses Association presents the participation of the Greek nurses to the titanic effort of the nation to confront -for six months- two great military -then enemy- forces, of Italy and Germany, with inconceivable bravery and heroism, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary from the glorious period of the recent history of our country.
Fifty
Definition:
(a.) Five times ten; as, fifty men.
(n.) The sum of five tens; fifty units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing fifty units, as 50, or l.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty-six percent of Lac+ transconjugants were resistant to the S. cremoris M12R lytic phage.
(2) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(3) A two-year follow-up was available for fifty-nine of the treated knees.
(4) The study included fifty children, aged six to fourteen years, selected from patients seeking routine dental care at Children's Hospital National Medical Center.
(5) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(6) Fifty-four cases were analysed, and a two-fold excess of clustering within one year was observed, both within single districts and between adjacent districts.
(7) Fifty per cent of Group I patients died from sepsis and MOF.
(8) Fifty-five consecutive patients evaluated for allergy with MRT Classes 0 or 1 were studied.
(9) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
(10) Fifty-four patients had pancreas cancer, confirmed by resection or biopsy in all cases.
(11) Two hundred fifty-one cervical and 209 male urethral specimens from three Richmond health clinics were read by direct immunofluorescence staining and compared with cell culture technics using iodine staining.
(12) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
(13) A sample of fifty-three partially dentate subjects who had had partial dentures provided in the last 3 years completed a personality questionnaire (Cattell's 16 PFQ).
(14) Fifty physiologically characterized units were injected with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or Lucifer yellow CH (LY) and their processes were traced to the crista.
(15) Fifty-four women who had been sexually abused as children (age 15 or younger) responded.
(16) One hundred ten atherosclerotic occlusions of the internal carotid artery (ICA) were found in 106 patients in group I. Fifty-one percent of these patients had a history of stroke before arteriography, 24% had transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) or amaurosis fugax (AF), and 12% had nonhemispheric symptoms.
(17) Fifty-day-old female Sprague-Dawley [Hsd:SD(BR)] rats received a single s.c. dose of 0 or 40 mg of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea per kg of body weight.
(18) The results of the Tinel percussion test, the Phalen wrist-flexion test, and the new test were evaluated in thirty-one patients (forty-six hands) in whom the presence of carpal tunnel syndrome had been proved electrodiagnostically, as well as in a control group of fifty subjects.
(19) Fifty-seven strains of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolated from humans and pigs and producing thermolabile (LT) enterotoxin were used to ascertain the efficiency of the Biken test compared to the passive immune haemolysis test (PIH), considered as very sensitive for detecting that enterotoxin.
(20) In this study, six patients, the proband, his four siblings and a niece, representing a kindred of fifty-two subjects, were examined for aymptomatic cutaneous nodules mainly on the back and chest.